Ravi Singh

Bluefin Consultancy

Founder And General Manager

Ravi Singh was the head of talent relations at The One, a retail company that has five years in a row won the top 10 Great Place to Work award, top employer for women and in 2013 top employer for Millennial. This year the One won the top 5 companies to work for in Asia. Ravi’s main focus in the company was Strategic Planning and Implementation of Business Plans from HR perspective, developing operational and Training structures and talent growth for the business. Other functions included, Policy writing, Payroll, Government Affairs, Talent Development, Creating Workplace initiatives and working closely with Operations in providing systems support. He is an expert in Change Management, Creator of Great Workplaces, Business Paradigms and Builder of Competitive Edge through the utilization of human capital to drive organizational performance at micro and macro levels.

Tuba Köseoglu Okçu

Hürriyet

HR Director and Member of Executive Committee

Ms. Köseoğlu Okçu started her career in 1994 as Conference Interpreter and in the meantime, served as lecturer at Bosphorus University. She started her HR career in 1997 and between 1997-2008 assumed various managerial HR positions at Dogus Group in Turkey, namely Performance Consultant at Garanti Bank, Executive Development Manager at Humanitas Dogus HR Management, HR Director at Dogus Holding and HR Coordinator at Dogus Automotive. Before joining Hürriyet as HR Director and Member of Executive Committee on March 15, 2012, Ms. Köseoğlu Okçu served as HR Organizational Development Coordinator at Eastpharma Deva Holding from 2008 to 2012. Ms. Köseoğlu Okçu, is a Board Member at Cultural Awareness Foundation and at Notre Dame de Sion Alumni Foundation.

Dennis Kight

IBM

Leadership Development Partner

Dennis has more than 20 years of Human Resources experience in a variety of industries and roles within the HR function including compensation, benefits, recruiting, organizational development, business partner, employee relations, training, and leadership and executive development. He is currently the Leadership Development Partner for IBM, and focuses primarily on developing IBM’s executive population across MEA. Prior to joining IBM in 2009, he worked with a diverse group of businesses including CBS News, BBDO Worldwide Advertising, Delta Airlines, Motorola, and Cisco Systems. He first moved to Dubai in 1998 while on assignment with Motorola. He relocated back to the Silicon Valley during the height of the internet boom, and returned to Dubai in 2003 when a great opportunity presented itself, and has lived in Dubai since. He enjoys the challenges that come along with supporting the MEA region’s very dynamic and emerging markets.

Önder Güler

Google for Work

Country Manager

Onder works closely with CEOs and senior IT leaders and occasionally the CFOs and CHROs across Turkey and Greece to help explore how the conventional technologies and the associated culture, around communication, information and data sharing, delegation and decision making, are turning into old ways of doing business in this new era. Before joining as the Country Manager of Google Enterprise in 2014, Onder has worked at senior management roles addressing the IT needs of the Enterprise customers at Vodafone, Cisco and Microsoft for the last 20 years. He loves change and the learning coming by change which made him to move to Google, a completely new type of a vendor in a very traditional market.

Ramakrishna Movva, Phd.

Chrysalis Consulting Solutions

Founder & CEO

Ramki performed various HR leadership roles in a career spanning over three decades. He last held the Executive VP & Head of Strategic HR and Organizational Capabilities position at Emirates NBD. INSEAD Business School published a case study on the HR transformation he facilitated at Emirates NBD. Previously, he worked with PwC and Unilever. He recently founded Chrysalis Consulting Solutions that provides consulting, coaching, learning, and advisory services in organizational and leadership development.

Ramki had the opportunity to conceive and execute organizational culture change initiatives and design new-age practices relating to leadership development, performance management, high potential talent, and succession programs. Besides, he trained and coached senior leaders and high-performing teams from diverse cultures to help them be at their best. 

He has a doctoral degree from California Institute of Integral Studies, USA, a postgraduate diploma in Occupational Psychology from the University of Surrey, UK, and a Master’s degree in HR from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India. In addition, he is an International Coach Federation certified leadership and team coach. 
Ramki lives with his family in Dubai. He replenishes his inner self through long walks, mindfulness practices, music, and gardening.

Hussein Dajani

Nissan

General Manager - Digital and Customer Experience (CX) Transformation - Africa, ME, Turkey, & India

Hussein has over 18 years of solid holistic Omnichannel Marketing Communication experience in the space leading and building seamless Phygital Customer Experience Journeys within multinational agencies (JWT, Leo Burnett, and TBWA) and Fortune 500 companies (Virgin Mobile, Red Bull, Nissan Motor Co.), across the Middle East, Africa, Turkey and India region.
After a 2 years stint with hug digital, as its Chief Digital and Operating Officer, which he grew exponentially till he lead to its sale to WPP, Hussein joins Nissan Motor Co. as General Manager Digital and Customer Experience for Africa, Middle East, India, and Turkey, for Nissan and Datsun brands, to be responsible for its Digital Transformation. Furthermore, Hussein plays an active role in the advisory council of the World Marketing Congress, as a Director with the Customer Institute, and as an expert advisor in ISMA (International Social Media Association).
 

Catalina Schveninger

DataCamp

Chief People Officer

Catalina Schveninger FCIPD, joined DataCamp from Futurelearn & Vodafone where she most recently held the Global Head of Learning and Capabilities role, being responsible for the reskilling/upskilling and learning culture strategy for the FTSE 20 company’s 100,000 employees across 25 countries.
Previously, Catalina was HR Director of T Mobile in The Netherlands. She began her international HR career in 2002 as a member of the Human Resources Leadership Program at GE and held different roles, including the HR Director of GE’s Security EMEA division.
A mother of 2, Catalina is a passionate advocate for the attraction and development of women in organizations and describes herself as a people and HR tech geek. Catalina holds a BA in Journalism and Communications from the University of Bucharest, a Diploma in Management from The Open University, and has lived and worked in six countries.

Federico Balzola

Former CHRO and Sustainability Officer at Procter and Gamble, Danone, Reckitt Benckiser, Aer Lingus and DIM

Chief HR Officer

Federico Balzola is an international CHRO and Sustainability Officer and a certified coach. He has worked for some of the best known brands in Europe like Procter and Gamble, Danone, Reckitt Benckiser, Aer Lingus and DIM inspired by three principles: 
a best in class HR appoach is a key pillar of a successful business strategy and a key enabler of business transformation.
focusing on employees wellbeing and developement is the best way to boost productivity and ultimately profitability.
The move towards a more sustainable business model will shape the winners of tomorrow

Danny Klappe

ING Bank

Senior Performance Manager Global HR

Danny Klappe has over 15 years of solid HR experience in the financial industry. Within ING, he held several positions as country head of HR for the Czech republic and Slovakia , global specialist for HR Mergers & Acquisitions and regional head of HR Wholesale Banking Central & Eastern Europe. At global level he was responsible for the design and implementation of the award-winning Orange Code, a global set of behaviours for all 53.000 ING employees. This set of global behaviours was incorporated into performance management, making all employees worldwide accountable not only for what they do, but also how they do it. At this moment, Danny is designing and implementing a new global performance management framework for ING worldwide. Danny is based in Amsterdam, and has previously worked and lived in Bangladesh and the Czech republic. Prior to ING, Danny worked for various companies as a business consultant.

Gabriele Metz

Ericsson

Global Head of Leadership Transformation

Gabriele Metz joined Ericsson in 2013 to lead the Talent Management organization in the Middle East region. Prior to joining Ericsson, Gabriele spent 18 years at Motorola in various HR capacities. She brings the insight and experience of a variety of HR functions applied across several geographies including Europe, Middle East and Africa. Her passion for strengthening young diverse talent developed during her very first HR role and continues to this day. She is currently driving a program within Ericsson which is focused on empowering and coaching young female talent. She has received regional recognition specifically for her work in diversity and for creating a mentoring circle to address the development of female talent. Gabriele is a strong advocate of building a diverse workforce because the results of doing so can be directly linked to the bottom line results of a business.